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A spliced, three-part image features: a tray of oysters on the left, a graphical representation of a black hole and a neutron star orbiting each other in the centre, and a graphical image of a robot on the right.

3 things you should know about acidification, gravitational waves, and humanoids

A cartoon-style graphic of two hands holding a tablet; the screen features an open book and some science-themed icons like a light bulb, a microscope, and a rocket ship.

Science Literacy Week explores science in our everyday lives

A young girl wearing a flowered dress is running through a path in a wheat field. Wind turbines are visible in the background, against a bright blue sky.

Bringing the past, present, and future to life with a captivating artifact

The surface of the Moon, scattered with craters of various sizes.

Astronaut training mission lands in Labrador

Two museum conservators wearing full-body Personal Protective Equipment stand side by side, holding a black aircraft control panel upright. The artifact is sitting on plastic sheeting on a table.

Inside Ingenium’s smallest collections storage room

Eight people stand in front of a flatbed truck, loaded with a large red-and-white wooden boat.

Collecting Nahma: A skiff with a story to tell

In the foreground, a cell phone displays the splash screen of the Sound by Design podcast. Behind the cellphone is a blurred image of the Sound by Design exhibition.

Museum podcasts: An ideal virtual format for blind and low vision visitors

In a field, a group of people lie on the grass looking up at the sky in front of two tipis.

Digging deeper: Regenerating Indigenous star knowledge

A desk with monochromatic white and silver objects on it, including an open laptop, a cellphone, a coffee cup, and several books. There is a plant in the background, and a white wall behind the desk.

Music meets public history and digital humanities in Garth Wilson Fellowship

A black-and-white image shows a group of seven men standing behind a large piece of wood, which is painted with the call letters “G-CAAC.”

Saving the Curtiss HS-2L: Recovering a piece of history from the bottom of a lake

Stick used for cultural purposes painted with brown, white, and black markings.

The Yuin Message Stick: A piece of the Yuin nation’s continuing history

Working on a small boat near the shoreline, Heiltsuk fishers harvest roe-on-kelp from a line in the water.

Bákvḷá: A collaborative exhibition on Heiltsuk place-based foodways

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An advertisement for St. Lawrence Starch Company Limited, Port Credit, Ontario. Anon., “Advertisement – St. Lawrence Starch Company Limited.” Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, September 1941, 61.

Free, magnificent cards bearing drawings or photographs of Allied aircraft! Collect them all!

Rénald Fortier

Do you like gifts, my reading friend? And no, in this case, this is not a rhetorical question. This being said (typed?), I do not have the slightest intention of giving you anything. I simply wish to make use of an advertisement which appeared in the September 1941 issue of the Québec monthly magazine Le Bulletin des agriculteurs of Montréal, Québec, to pontificate on the question with which I have just introduced this September 2021 issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee. You are obviously

An illustration of a multi-ethnic group of children holding up a sun, a plant sprout, a raindrop and a recycling symbol. At the center, a child hugs planet Earth.

Earth & Environment

Science Literacy Week : 6 great ways to learn about climate

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Indigenous Star Knowledge

A spliced, three-part image features: a tray of oysters on the left, a graphical representation of a black hole and a neutron star orbiting each other in the centre, and a graphical image of a robot on the right.

3 things you should know about acidification, gravitational waves, and humanoids

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and…

For the September edition, our experts wrote about why ocean acidification is posing problems for shellfish, how researchers used gravitational waves to observe a black hole and neutron star orbiting each other and merging, and what the future could look like — with humanoids in our midst.

A cartoon-style graphic of two hands holding a tablet; the screen features an open book and some science-themed icons like a light bulb, a microscope, and a rocket ship.

Earth & Environment

Science Literacy Week explores science in our everyday lives

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An Aluminium français-Grégoire automobile, Cité de l’automobile – Musée national – Collection Schlumpf, Mulhouse, France, May 2010, Wikimedia.

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‘Tween two joints, he did something well: Jean Albert Grégoire and his magnificent automobiles, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Good day, my reading friend. Your presence suggests that the first part of our article on the life and work of French engineer Jean Albert Grégoire pleased you a little bit. So let us start without further delay the second part of said article. You will be delighted to learn that a project launched by Grégoire around 1943, while the Second World War raged on, had a relatively happy ending. In 1941, in parallel with his work on the CGE-Tudor electric city automobile mentioned in the first part of

A young girl wearing a flowered dress is running through a path in a wheat field. Wind turbines are visible in the background, against a bright blue sky.

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Bringing the past, present, and future to life with a captivating artifact

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An example of the French CGE-Tudor electric automobile. C. Faroux, “Un progrès considérable de la voitures électrique.” La Vie automobile, 25 September 1941, 284.

Road Transportation

‘Tween two joints, he really did something: Jean Albert Grégoire and his magnificent automobiles, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Hail, my reading friend, and welcome you to the wonderful world of science, technology and innovation. And no, there will be no mention of aeronautics this week. As a former colleague told me over 30 years ago (Hello, CF!), there is more to life than airplanes. Considering the photograph that adorns this article of our blog / bulletin / thingee, you can probably imagine that our subject for this week of August 2021 is an automobile or, more precisely, the designer of that automobile. With your

3 things you should know about acidification, gravitational waves, and humanoids

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and…

The surface of the Moon, scattered with craters of various sizes.

Earth & Environment

Astronaut training mission lands in Labrador

The one and only example of the Italian long range airliner Breda Zappata BZ 308. Jacques Gambu. “Breda Zappata BZ 308.” Aviation Magazine, 1 September 1951, 21.

Il Constellation italiano, an unrecognised star in Italy’s aeronautical firmament: The Breda Zappata BZ 308 long range airliner

Rénald Fortier

It is with a certain trepidation that yours truly approaches the subject of this week, my reading friend. I feel a certain discomfort at the idea of talking about an aircraft designed in Italy during the years during which the Partito nazionale fascista, an unsavoury organisation led by Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, a pompous brute and buffoonish dictator mentioned since August 2018 in several issues of our blog / bulletin / thingee, held the reins of power. Before getting to the heart of

Paul Fjeld in the family residence, Rosemère, Québec. Claude-Lyse Gagnon, “Parti avec $200 en poche – Un jeune Québécois a pu voir décoller Apollo 15.” La Patrie, 15 August 1971, 12.

Space, the final frontier towards which travels our planet, the Earth; this is the life story of Paul Fjeld, space enthusiast and artist for over half a century

Rénald Fortier

God dag, good day, bonjour, my reading friend. There are people among us who, through a combination of hard work, talent and, perhaps, a little luck, manage to build careers in a field they had been passionate about since their teenage years, and even childhood. Paul Fjeld was / is one of those happy souls. Let me explain. Fjeld was born in Bærum, Norway, in June 1955. A few months later, his family moved to the Montréal, Québec, area. Fjeld’s childhood and adolescence undoubtedly resembled

Two museum conservators wearing full-body Personal Protective Equipment stand side by side, holding a black aircraft control panel upright. The artifact is sitting on plastic sheeting on a table.

Inside Ingenium’s smallest collections storage room

Advertisement for the Frontenac Blue Label lager of National Breweries Limited of Montréal, Québec. Anon., “Advertisement – National Breweries Limited.” Le Samedi, 23 August 1941, 12.

The great victim of the Montréal beer war of 1925: Frontenac Breweries Limited of Montréal, Québec

Rénald Fortier

Hello, my reading friend. Hoping that from time to time you let yourself be tempted by an alcoholic drink obtained by the fermentation of a mixture of vegetable products (wheat, rice and / or barley in most cases), consumed in moderation of course, in other words, a beer, yours truly would like to make you discover a Québec brewery well known in its time, Frontenac Breweries Limited of Montréal, Québec, and… Do you have a question, by any chance, my reading friend? Two questions?! Heavens, be

A white box is filled with seven objects. Two of them are boxes of metal type, labelled with white tags and black writing. The labels read: “880617,” “880618,” “880627,” and “880628.” The boxes are surrounded by the other artifacts that they will be packed with for transfer.

Inside the cigar box: A peek into a small, Canadian printing press